On Wednesday May 7th we woke up extra early and headed out to Epcot.
We were really excited but sad at the same time. We knew our time was coming to an end. We arrived before the gates opened and kinda wandered around checking things out. The opened the gates and then held us back, similar to what they had done at nearly every other park this week. Our first order of business was Soarin’. We figured out who to follow and when the rope dropped, we high tailed it to the ride. We only had about a 5 minute wait, and that is because there is a little movie you watch prior to the actual ride. This is one of the newest rides to the park, and none of us had ridden it. You basically feel like you are hang-gliding. You are pulled out over a huge IMAX type screen, which is on the ground and then you watch this movie and you can feel the breeze in your hair and the aromas of the pine trees and orange orchards as you “pass” over them. It really was such a cool ride. I think it became my new favorite ride.
After Soarin’ we headed straight across to Mission: Space. Also a newer ride that we had not ever been on. This is a ride which is so “intense” that they have a gentle side and a high intensity side. We put our big boy pants on and all 4 of us rode the more intense side. In this ride they spin you so fast that you feel like you are taking off into space. The “problem” with this ride, is that if you look to the side you can become very disoriented and nauseous. If you follow the rules, you get the thrill of the ride, and no throwing up.
Both Josh and I looked to the side for a second and both of us felt the effects of this choice. Both kids followed the rules and were totally fine. The ride is really fun and very realistic. We all enjoyed it, but were not jonesing to get back on it. Right next to Mission: Space is Test Track and we jumped into line for it. It was very cool, and one Josh feel into love with many years ago. It was still really neat and the kids enjoyed it. It was also nice that the ride was so empty that we were able to be in a 6 person car with only the 4 of us. When you finish the ride it dumps you into a showroom for GM and the kids ran up to every car and got in and pretended to drive and got finger prints all over the glass for some poor cast member to clean off.
Jacob had been eyeing the Mickey ears all week long, but could not commit to a pair, until he saw the sorcerers set. He tried them on and he was sold.
Josh tried a pair on for fun as well.
After Test track we walked through a butterfly garden, and I took about a bazillion pictures. I could of stayed there all day long. It was so neat to see all the butterflies.
After the family dragged me out we headed over to the World Showcase to have lunch. We ate in Japan, at a nice little place were we had chicken teriyaki and rice. It was nice. Jacob ate something completely different. Nuggets, I am sure.
After we ate we headed through the rest of the showcase, taking in all the cultures and shops. The kids both got a henna tattoo at the India pavilion and Jacob didn’t follow directions and his was gone within 5 days, but Emily did follow the directions and hers lasted at least 10 days. It was very cool and I wished afterwards that I had gotten one as well. They both really liked the way it looked and were totally excited to be able to do something like that with their spending money, something I never would have paid for myself.
We eventually made our way into the United Kingdom Pavilion. And guess who was right around the corner? Why, it was Mary Poppins!
After we had seen her we walked off and Josh got into line to get us something to drink, and I took the kids to take some funny pictures and Emily went to wait in line with her father.
Jacob wanted to go watch Mary Poppins.
Here he is watching her:
Here is our view of her:
And here is the last picture he asked me to take of her:
I am afraid we may have a stalker on our hands. J
We continued on through the countries, enjoying the ride in Norway, the miniature trains in Germany, wishing for a vacation in France, watching an amazing 360 video of China and walking through the plaza in Mexico. I really enjoy the World Showcase. We wandered into Mexico just in time for our early reservation and enjoyed a lovely meal there. Not as wonderful as we had remembered, but good none the less. After the meal we rode on the Mexico ride, which was horrible. It is a boat ride with movie clips from the Three Caballeros. It was bad, just bad.
We wondered back into future world and went on Space Ship Earth. They have recently redone this ride and it was better than before, but already outdated, as technology is growing by leaps and bounds. When you get off this ride it dumps you into a world with educational video games and interactive games like shuffleboard. The kids and Josh were really enjoying it so I stepped away to the Kodak camera shop and bought myself a new camera neck strap with Mickey icons on it. It is so much softer and not nearly as scratchy as the neck strap that came with the camera was. I love it.
We made our way back into the World Showcase and settled in for the fireworks show. We were determined to catch this one, since we had missed the show at the previous days park. Illuminations is a neat show, but I don’t really “get” it, so it is never really touching to me. It was ok. I really enjoyed Wishes at the Magic Kingdom ten times more.
After the show was over, we, along with 50,000 of our closest friends started heading out and we got caught up in the shops at closing. Big mistake. The lines are SO long and there are so many people and the kids were tired. We finally made it out of there and headed back to the hotel for out last nights sleep at Disney World.
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